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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[1594] Gen. vi. 1, 2. [It is surprising with what tenacity this interpretation clings to the ancient mind of the Church. The Nephilim and Gibborim need a special investigation. The Oriental tales of the genii are probably connected with their fabulous history.]
Chapter III.—Against Men Who Embellish Themselves.
[1595] [Heathen manners are here depicted as a warning to Christians. We cannot suppose Christians, as yet, to any extent, corrupted in their manners by fashion and frivolity; for to be a Christian excluded one from temptations of this kind.]
[1596] [Query, De re Nicotiana?]
[1597] [Smelling of Nicotine?]
[1598] Dan. vii. 9. [A truly eloquent passage.]
[1600] Ecclus. xxv. 6.
[1602] [On the other hand, this was Esau’s symbol; and the sensual “satyrs” (Isa. xiii. 2) are “hairy goats,” in the original. So also the originals of “devils” in Lev. xvii. 7, and 2 Chron. xi. 15. See the learned note of Mr. West, in his edition of Leighton, vol. v. p. 161.]
[1604] έγκαταριθμένην seems to be here used in a middle, not a passive sense, as καταριθμημένος is sometimes.
[1606] [Such were the manners with which the Gospel was forced everywhere to contend. That they were against nature is sufficiently clear from the remains of decency in some heathen. Herodotus (book i. cap. 8) tells us that the Lydians counted it disgraceful even for a man to be seen naked.]
[1610] [When the loss of the beard was a token of foppery and often of something worse, shaving would be frivolity; but here he treats of extirpation.]
[1612] Ecclus. xix. 29, 30.
[1613] Hesiod, Works and Days, i. 232.
[1614] Of which they drink.
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